USC Trojans earn No. 2 seed in first committee Top-16 reveal
The USC Trojans earned a No. 2 seed in the initial Top-16 released by the NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Committee on Sunday. The Trojans are the No. 5 team overall.
Lindsay Gottlieb’s program is searching for back-to-back No. 1 seeds in the NCAA Tournament and will have a bit of work to do over the coming weeks. But the path is there.
If the season ended today, USC would be the No. 2 seed in Spokane Regional 4, along with No. 1 Notre Dame, No. 3 Kansas State and No. 4 Kentucky. That would potentially set up a rematch between the Trojans and Irish in the Elite 8. Notre Dame beat USC earlier this season in a game at Galen Center.
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USC will have a chance to crack that No. 1 line in the coming weeks, however. And their shot goes straight through the Bruins. After a phenomenal fourth-quarter performance helped USC to a 71-60 win over UCLA at home, the Trojans and Bruins will hold the rematch at Pauley Pavilion in the final game of the regular season. The two teams could be on track to play in the Big Ten Tournament final as well, as the likely Nos. 1 and 2 seeds. The Trojans do have a couple of other games they’ll need to show up for first, playing on the road at Washington today and then hosting home games this week against No. 22 Michigan State and an Illinois team just outside of the Top 25.
In 2024, the Trojans made a run to the Elite 8, beating No. 16 Texas A&M – Corpus Christi, No. 8 Kansas and No. 5 Baylor before falling to No. 3 UConn.
